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What school is not (Postman)

…  the expense of doing well what it is best suited to do. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

June 6th, 2006  |  Published in Culture, Education, Quotes


School as a well-financed garbage dump (Postman)

…  can be expected except the unsweet odor of failure. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 31st, 2006  |  Published in Culture, Education, Quotes


Information consumption (Postman)

…  the flow of new information coming fast behind it. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 27th, 2006  |  Published in Consumerism, Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television


An all-instant society (Postman)

…  Constancy is one of the main teachings of civilization. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 25th, 2006  |  Published in Community, Consumerism, Culture, Life, Quotes


The word is a small universe of ideas (Postman)

…  is not just an idea. It is a small universe of ideas. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 23rd, 2006  |  Published in Language, Quotes


Television is hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression (Postman)

…  both writing and speech must lose some of their power. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 20th, 2006  |  Published in Culture, Education, Quotes, Television


Television threatens hierarchy (Postman)

…  their role in the drama and, indeed, justify that role. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 19th, 2006  |  Published in Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television


Image obliterates ideas and issues (Postman)

…  of TV leads to the dominance of personality. –Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. …

May 17th, 2006  |  Published in Culture, Quotes, Technology, Television